Occupational Health Psychology Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：康涅狄格大学职业健康心理学（OHP）研究生培训计划旨在从心理学，公共卫生和护理领域招募和培养高素质和多样化的研究生，成为能够进行多学科和跨学科研究的博士研究员，重点关注职业健康的行为方面。研究生培训方案遵循科学家-实践者模式，受训者完成15学分的职业健康心理学研究生证书，其中包括由核心教员讲授的研究生研修班、流行病学的必修研究生方法课程、教员监督的职业健康与卫生领域的实地或实验室研究，以及心理学和/或公共卫生方面的两门选修研究生课程。研究和专题课程包括人事/组织心理学、人因学/人体工程学、公共卫生研究生课程和流行病学，由来自心理学和医学院的5名受过专门训练的教员授课，使学员掌握的技能不仅能使他们对当今的职业健康问题进行研究，还要发展和应用工作组织和工作场所设计的新概念，以提高工人的健康和生产力，超出目前的预期，从而实现跨学科职业健康研究的真正潜力，以满足区域和国家的需要。每年有8名全日制受训者得到研究金的支助，预计在5年赠款期间，将有15名积极进取的受训者毕业，同时获得博士学位和职业事务专员证书。一些职业趋势，如裁员、临时劳动力和工作时间延长；远程办公和工作场所自动化水平的提高推动了对职业健康心理学研究的需求。职业健康规划涉及影响工作生活质量和工人反应的广泛接触和机制，例如个人心理属性如何与工作内容和工作组织以及组织政策和做法相互作用。职业健康办公室的研究和实践探讨了针对工作环境和个人的干预措施，以创造更健康的工作场所和组织，提高工人保护其安全和健康的能力，并最大限度地提高他们的整体效率和幸福感。

DESCRIPTION (Provided by Applicant): The Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) graduate training program at the University of Connecticut is designed to recruit and train highly qualified and diverse graduate students from areas of psychology, public health and nursing to become Ph.D. researchers capable of conducting multi-disciplinary and trans- disciplinary research focusing on the behavioral aspects of occupational health. The graduate training program follows a scientist-practitioner model in which trainees complete a 15-credit graduate certificate in occupational health psychology consisting of a graduate proseminar taught by core faculty, a required graduate methods course in epidemiology, faculty-supervised field or lab research in OHP, and two elective graduate courses in psychology and/or public health. The research and topical curriculum includes personnel/organizational psychology, human factors/ergonomics, public health graduate courses and epidemiology taught by 5 specially trained faculty from both Psychology and the School of Medicine to equip trainees with the skills that will not only enable them to conduct research on today's occupational health problems, but also to develop and apply new concepts of work organization and workplace design for enhancing worker health and productivity beyond current expectations, thus realizing the true potential of trans-disciplinary occupational health research to meet both regional and national needs. With eight full-time trainees supported by fellowships each year, the expectation is that 15 motivated trainees will graduate with a combination of a Ph.D. and the OHP certificate over the 5-year grant period. Relevance A number of occupational trends, such as downsizing, contingent labor and longer work hours; telework, and increasing levels of automation in the workplace have propelled the need for studies on occupational health psychology. OHP is concerned with the broad range of exposures and mechanisms that affect the quality of working life and the responses of workers, such as how individual psychological attributes interact with job content and work organization as well as organizational policies and practices. OHP research and practice explores interventions targeting the work environment as well as the individual to create healthier workplaces and organizations, and to improve the capacity of workers to protect their safety and health and also to maximize their overall effectiveness and sense of wellbeing.